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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Dragonfly vs. GBase vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.gbase.cn

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

DGraph Labs

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2017

2023

2004

2010

Current release

1.0, March 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

Erlang

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

scheme-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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